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The nominees are selected by music industry experts and previous winners of the award from the past decade.

Entries have jumped from just 10 in 2005, to 50 covers vying for this year’s prize.

Previous winners include Scott Bendall for Muse’s 2009 The Resistance album, Jamie Hewlett’s design for the Gorillaz album Demon Days, and even the 16th century Dutch artist Pieter Breugel the Elder for the use of his painting on the eponymous Fleet Foxes LP.